For more than 15 months, Georgia regulators have been pondering the issuance of a permit to mine near the Okefenokee Swamp.
Environmentalists who have fought against the permit, saying mining will harm the largest wildlife refuge on the East Coast, were certain a permit decision was about to be issued last summer. When that didn’t happen, they were betting on a post-election announcement. Then Thanksgiving. Then Christmas, then the New Year, then after Trump’s inauguration.
Each date came and went with no decision and the same refrain that EPD spokeswoman Sara Lips repeated again last month: “There are no new updates at this time.”
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